Excel has tons of amazing hacks and tricks, this course can give you an expert-level understanding

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Microsoft Excel can be the most useful and versatile tool on your computer. With it you can balance budgets, create graphics to display data, and if you want to, track the advanced statistics of your favorite baseball players.

But Excel is only as powerful as the person wielding the keyboard, and for the uninitiated, the program can seem rather frustrating and difficult to navigate. While spreadsheet experts can look at a page and see the masterpiece that it could soon become, an Excel rookie will just see a bunch of boxes that seem to continue into an endless void.

If you find yourself in the latter group and would prefer to be in the former, this Microsoft Excel Training Bundle currently being offered by Udemy may be the place to start. The bundle includes classes for beginners as well as an advanced course for both Excel 2010 and 2013, meaning that you can start learning no matter what your experience level is or which version of the software you have.

To start, the courses will take you through the basics of Excel: how to enter data efficiently and using functions and formulas to create new datasets and derive new information from the numbers. You'll also learn how to chart this data in visually compelling ways.

There are tons of benefits to knowing Excel's ins and outs: You'll be more valuable in the workplace, and have a tool at your disposal to allow you to analyze data in ways you never could have before. The course usually runs for $297, but right now Udemy is offering the bundle for just $19. If you've been wanting to get started on learning Excel, now is the right time.

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